Mythbusters

This past weekend, I was watching the Discovery Channel and came across a cool show known as Mythbusters. In this show, they actually attempt to confirm myths, or else they reject their existence if their experiment shows so. In the past they have tried to prove which appliances have enough voltage to kill a human if dropped into a bath tub. It really is an interesting show if the myth is proved correctly because most of these outcomes are unpredictable. The myth they tried to prove this weekend involved a car going on a freeway, and trying to load onto the back of a car-carrying truck. The myth says that if a car going a certain velocity tries to load onto the open ramp on the back of the truck that is going at a lesser velocity, than the car will speed up as it mounts the ramp. However, they found that the car does not speed up as it hits the ramp and it loads on fine. They explained it by saying that the truck's velocity becomes part of the car's velocity as it loads on, allowing it to seem as if the car loads onto the ramp slowly. This was extremely interesting because I had originally agreed with the myth.